The entry level dram from Glen Morays Elgin Heritage range and matured exclusively in American Oak casks, this dram was described to me by The distillery’s Iain Allan as the typical Speyside dram and to be fair I can’t disagree.

My good friend Barry from The Whisky Philes recently took part in a tweet tasting of Glen Moray drams with The Whisky Wire and shared some of the generous samples from these single cask expressions with me.

Recently i finally managed to make the trip to Glen Moray distillery in Elgin, I took the train, which is a long and arduous journey, and will return again soon by car as train is not a pleasant way to travel that distance.

The Fill Your Own at Glen Moray is a thing of legend around many experienced whisky drinkers, the whisky is always tasty, the price is always fair and the staff at the distillery are always friendly, and that is a winning combination.

My good friend Barry from The Whisky Philes recently took part in a tweet tasting of Glen Moray drams with The Whisky Wire and shared some of the generous samples from these single cask expressions with me.

Another epic Fill Your Own from the outstanding Glen Moray distillery. This distillery outpunches all the big boys and is beginning to get the recognition for the hard work by all those who work for it.

Like many distillery visitors centres the friendly and knowledgeable folks at Glen Moray have some Fill Your Own (or Bottle Your Own, or Hand Fill or whatever you want to call them) single casks at the distillery which for a reasonable fee they will let you fill straight from the cask into a bottle.

Like many distilleries nowadays Glen Moray, which i will openly admit here is one of my all time favourite distilleries, has been looking at different cask types for maturing their whisky in other than the normal ex-bourbon, ex-sherry and this one has been finished in an ex-Cabernet Sauvignon wine cask.

The most expensive release from Glen Moray that i've seen in my time drinking whisky, and that includes me having drank through some SMWS bottlings around the same age as me, so this has to be pretty special.